Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Literary Terms
Reading Strategies
100
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
The important idea the author wants to express.
What is main idea?
100
A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem.
What is a refrain?
100
How the author feels about his subject.
What is tone?
100
A pre-reading strategy that helps you identify important words in the text.
What is highlight bold or italized words?
200
A struggle between two forces.
What is conflict?
200
A statement that can be proven.
What is a fact?
200
A comparison of two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
The feeling a reader gets after reading a selection.
What is mood?
200
A phrase placed below a picture or illustration to describe its contents.
What is a caption?
300
Problems that arise for the characters of a story.
What are complications?
300
A statement that cannot be proven.
What is an opinion?
300
A poem that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
An educated guess based on clues.
What is an inference?
300
Writing notes or questions beside a text as you read.
What is annotating a text?
400
A conflict between two forces such as man vs. man, or man vs. nature.
What is external conflict?
400
To persuade, inform or entertain.
What is author's purpose?
400
A group of lines in a poem arranged together.
What is a stanza?
400
A lesson about right or wrong ways to behave.
What is a moral?
400
A answer to a question that can be found in the text.
What is a right there question?
500
A truth about life or a lesson learned from a story.
What is theme?
500
A phrase that indicates what the section of text will be about.
What is a subheading?
500
A comparison of two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
500
When a reader is unsure of what will happen next in the plot.
What is suspense?
500
The most important strategy you must use before you read a selection.
What is read the questions first?
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